Snoweria Zhang is a designer, artist, and mathematician. She is currently the Urban Innovation Architect at KPF Urban Interface. Previously, she has worked at Sidewalk Labs and the MIT Senseable City Lab. Her work spans architecture, urbanism, computation, and technology. Snoweria has written about the intersection of data and urban issues, and her design was recently featured on the cover of Nature. She also draws a webcomic called Lonesome Whales.
Jennifer Dalton is an interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, New York. In her installations, drawings and sculptures she collects, organizes and evaluates cultural information according to her own personal criteria. Her subjects are often chosen in an attempt to test a hypothesis or to dissect a chip on her own shoulder, and the results of her research have been displayed as photographic grids, hand-drawn charts, customized gumball machines, candies, bracelets, figurines, and other materials. Dalton earned a BA in Fine Art from UCLA and an MFA from Pratt Institute. Recent exhibitions include Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany; Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton, NY; Museum of Capitalism, NYC; 601Artspace, NYC; Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles; Flag Art Foundation, NYC; Center Galleries, Detroit; Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany; and Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles. She is the recipient of fellowships from Pollock-Krasner Foundation, La Napoule Foundation, MacDowell Colony and Yaddo, among others.
Philadelphia-based artist, Cindy Stockton Moore is working with concept collaborator, Rachel Blake, a writer, lawyer and housing rights advocate. Physicist and data scientist, John Stockton is providing additional consultation. They are joined by artist and early childhood educator, Hoang Pham, and musician and photograph conservator, Rachel Wetzel.
As a community planner and artist working within the realm of sustainability, Renée Crowley is deeply connected to art as a tool for community engagement and inspiring ecological stewardship. Her practice inhabits many spheres whether designing community-based programs to advance the art and science of composting, to teaching neighbors how to dye fabric with their food waste or further developing a personal art practice driven by ecological materials such as clay.
Through Renée’s on-the-ground experience with composting food scraps in New York City, she has witnessed a considerable amount of perfectly edible food being tossed into a compost bin. Watching this take place while knowing the extreme food insecurities that so many New Yorkers face, she strives to make stronger connections between food waste, wasted food and those who need access to healthy food.
Julia Bloom is an artist, data scientist, and graduate from Columbia’s Quantitative Methods in Social Science Masters (QMSS) program living in NYC. Her research centers around social justice issues, from simulating the proliferation of police brutality using epidemiological models to visualizing water testing methodologies across Flint, Michigan. She particularly enjoys exploring the interaction between space and social phenomena, and playing with maps. She lives in Brooklyn with her cat, Toulouse.
Sukanya Aneja is an engineer and artist from India, currently based in New York. She enjoys using code as a tool for creative expression, and as a craft in itself. Her work explores the emergent quality of rule-based systems, the complex spaces between humans and computers, and technical tools and infrastructure that are easy to take for granted. She is a graduate of the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at NYU.
Michael Hsu is a software engineer, artist, and writer from Taiwan. He loves the algorithmic life hidden in all things, from the wrinkles in a bedsheet to the formation of galaxies to the traffic in a city to the flocking of birds. He currently works at a company that tries to prevent electricity blackouts. In the past he has done some research on RNA folding and made maps of coastal wetlands.
Noah Garcia is an educator, registered architect, multidisciplinary designer, and researcher focused on issues relating to the environment and technology—working across scales, from the body to the city. He holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City, and a multidisciplinary Master’s degree from the University of Michigan concentrating on Human-Computer Interaction and Urban Informatics.
Ivan Himanen is an architect, urbanist, and researcher, whose multifaceted practice strives for balance: between buildings and cities, clients and communities, technology and craft, and the democratic and creative processes. He holds a Bachelor of Architecture from The Cooper Union in New York City, a Master in City & Technology from The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia in Barcelona, and is a licensed architect in the State of New York.
Brian Foo is an artist and computer scientist working in libraries and museums with a focus on the visualization of large collections of information and media for the public. He is currently a data artist at the American Museum of Natural History and was the 2020 Innovator in Residence at the Library of Congress. His work has been exhibited in the Museum of the City of New York and the Museum of Art and Design and featured on NPR, New York Times, and The Atlantic.
Alec Barrett is a software engineer at Datadog and part-time faculty in the data visualization program at Parsons School of Design. He lives in New York City, is a member of Manhattan Community Board 9, and is an alum of the Recurse Center.
Aishwarya Keshav is an architect and art producer living and working in New York. She received her Bachelors in Architecture from IIT Chicago and Masters in Science from Columbia University.
Rachel LaBine is an artist working in painting, installation, and performance. She holds a BFA from RISD and a MFA from Columbia University, and in 2019 was awarded a Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Award. She lives in New York.
Jason Forrest is a data visualization specialist, writer, and designer living in New York City. He is the director of interactive data visualization for McKinsey and Company's COVID Response Center. In addition to being on the board of directors of the Data Visualization Society, he is also the editor-in-chief of Nightingale: the journal of the Data Visualization Society. He writes about the intersection of culture and information design and is currently working on a book about pictorial statistics.
New York-based multidisciplinary artist Jen Ray creates paintings, sculpture, videos, and performances that examine female power and self-determination. Ray has had numerous exhibitions in Europe and America. Her show Hits at the Kasseler Kunstverein in Kassel, Germany was an early-career retrospective of painting, video, and sculpture with a large-scale performance entitled, Annihilate, featuring 100 local volunteer performers. In 2018, Ray was invited to collaborate with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra to stage Eyes as Bright As Diamonds with musician Sarah Jaffe. This performance presented three traditional yet controversial folksongs by a 25 person team of dancers, color guards, and musicians to explore the detrimental racial and gender issues underlying American history. Ray’s paintings have also been featured in prestigious galleries, academic and museum exhibitions, many of which were featured in the book Vitamin D3, in which 109 international artists were selected by some of the world's foremost critics and curators as outstanding examples in the field of drawing and painting.